CORRUPTION AND INTEGRITY

Corruption and Integrity

Corruption and Integrity

Abstract

Corruption is a phenomenon that has always characterized all civilization is also the oldest. From the Mesopotamian civilizations, where the reciprocity between the subject and the gift was required for an established custom, all Athens of Pericles or the Rome of Cicero, where the bribe was a costume though formally condemned widely, from Europe of the Reformation, crucial in the establishment of an ethics anti-corruption, unresolved moral issue of our day:

"Favors, gifts and bribes are the norm. At one time the illegality was concentrated in the construction industry, including licensing, development plan and use changes. He then gained ground: the lace appeared to exist (to obtain certificates of residence and residence permits), the lace on citizenship (to skip the military service and to promote the exchange rate), the lace for a roof (with a view 'allocation of public housing or the imminence of eviction), the lace for a title (from final exams to universities), the lace work (recruitment through competitive examinations, permits to carry out commercial activities and licensing professionals ), the lace in order to survive (pensions and life-saving drugs), and the lace to rest in peace (to find a place in the cemetery is always more difficult). “[Cazzola (1992) "Italy's lace: Phenomenology of the tangent daily. Einaudi, Torino]

Introduction

Corruption - which is defined as "abuse of power that we gave you for personal enrichment"- can take different forms, from minor to influence events institutionalized corruption.

Corruption endangers the reputation of a company and increases the legal risks, financial and otherwise.

The first problem you face when you approach this issue is the difficulty of defining corruption.

As for "corruption" is defined as follows by the organization Transparency International: "Offer and acceptance of a gift, loan, fee, reward or other benefits in order to drive a particular person in a practice dishonest or illegal, or to break the psychological contract, the company concerned. "

Most people can recognize corruption when they see them, but the problem is that different people see corruption in a different way.

The word corruption comes from the Latin verb Rump ere, which means breaking. This definition therefore implies that something, the act of corruption, is broken and that something can be represented by a code of moral rules or, more specifically, by laws and administrative rules. As we shall see, the most common way of defining corruption is "abuse of public office for private gain" (Bardhan, 1997). "The use of public office for private gains" or "sale by a public official to public property for private gain [" rooms by the Government Officials of government property for personal gain "] (Shleifer and Vishny, 1993).

Discussion

The organization Transparency International (TI) is committed to the fight against small and big crooks. The organization Transparency International (TI) is committed to the fight against small and big crooks. TI annually measures the level of corruption in all parts of the world and creates an index. TI annually measures the level of corruption in all ...